Vendors don’t even agree on whether the :gun: is a revolver or an automatic or space ray guns or even water guns, btw it’s an 1911 in original DoCoMo emojis
Sure, that's a benefit of emojis being semantic. If you want 'SFW' emojis, you can get them. Converting them to images makes that impossible. And uses vastly more bandwidth, makes them impossible to copy+paste, probably has accessibility issues, etc.
